Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the meal we returned for our physical examinations. In preparation for the occasion I had written several negative remarks about the Army on my T-shirt as well as the phone number of the Boston Draft Resistance Group. To my surprise I was ordered to remove my T-shirt; to their surprise there was even more subversive literature written on my back...
...local Board talk and pass out leaflets to other pre-inductees. Groups like Boston Draft Resistance (547-8260) can often provide support...
Shortly before the assassination of President Kennedy, the NRA helped Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (R-Conn.) draft another bit of gun legislation, which would have tightened up gun sales slightly. The bill would have required purchasers of mail order handguns to submit a notarized statement that they were over 18 and that their state allowed them to have a pistol...
...Vietnam unjust and immoral." I can say, without qualification, that I despise the war and hate to see anyone going off to fight in it. At the same time, beyond the means suggested in Conrad Lyn's well-known book, the consequences of refusal to comply with the draft are jail or exile...
Dean Elder has long been opposed to draft exemptions for students in so-called "critical" disciplines, and said yesterday that occupational deferments for teaching fellows would have a similar effect. Most of the teaching fellows in need of the II-A deferments will be first or second-year graduate students, since third and fourth year students will keep their II-S deferments. As only in the natural sciences do first-year students generally teach, and thus even possibly qualify for the II-A, "I would be virtually arguing that some disciplines should be recognized as sanctuaries," Elder said. This...